The International Islamic Fiqh Academy on Thursday urged Muslims worldwide to grant Zakat money to the victims of the floods in Pakistan. The academy, affiliated with the Organization of Islamic Conference, said in a statement that clerics issued an edict allowing a Muslim to allocate Zakat aid for Muslims outside his country, namely the victims [...]
Will there be a major war between China and India? That’s the 64,000 rupee question addressed by the highly respected British magazine “The Economist” in a major article in their 21 August issue. The “Economist” warns that the long contested border between the two giant Asian rivals risks sparking future clashes or even a full-scale [...]
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy on Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam. Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to a group of 500 young women hired and paid by an agency [...]
Suppression and oppression give birth to depression; the worst of all psychological diseases. Most of the time violence is a result of depression. When someone feels that he is being deprived of his basic human rights and finds himself unable to raise a voice against that deprivation and injustice, he turns to violence. Unfortunately this [...]
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and award-winning actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday appealed to the public for further financial support to bring humanitarian relief to the millions of Pakistanis suffering as a result of the monsoon floods. Jolie, who serves as the Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), impressed the devastation of [...]
A pill for chest pains a week could save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients and dramatically reduce hospital admissions, trial results published recently suggest. Professor Martin Cowie, who led the UK-based part of the study, said the drug could prevent up to 10,000 deaths a year in the UK and described it [...]
On its submarines Britain has 48 nuclear warheads, each one eight times as powerful as the nuclear bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. In other words, theoretically Prime Minister James Cameron could order the almost instant incineration of 384 large cities around the world. Barely anyone in the parliament mentioned it, much less debated it in the [...]
This is Pakistan’s Katrina. I just returned from that country, where the devastation created by the recent floods was gut-wrenching. Five years after floods washed over the southern United States, Pakistan is suffering from an epic disaster. And we turn away from Pakistan in its hour of need at our own peril. It’s not just [...]
Secretary General Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Dr Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu said Tuesday that the organization will establish “Emergency Fund for Natural Disaster” to help victims of disasters anywhere in the Islamic countries. He was talking to President Asif Ali Zardari during a call on at Chief Minister House here Tuesday. Briefing the newsmen about the [...]
BJP veteran Jaswant Singh on Monday chided the government in the Lok Sabha for its casual approach and silence on the recent actions of the Chinese government which had put national honour and security into question. Speaking on issues of national importance, Mr Singh said Defence Minister while looking after the security of the nation [...]
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